Brooklyn Bird Club walk , led by Rafael Campos
( report from Rafael)
Date: 24 May 2009
Observers: Rafael Campos + 6 birders
The BBC walk started around 7:40 am, from Grand Army Plaza. The Vale was the great stop, with a good number of sps seen quite close: Northern Waterthrush, Blackpoll Warbler, Northern Parula, Common Yellowthroat. We passed by the active nest of the Red-tailed Hawk, and saw the nestling. Midwood was quite slow, but the Red-eyed Vireos practically outnumber any other sps. Music Pagoda, Lily Pond; 1 Canada Warbler gave us great looks. Edge of the Nethermead, were a nice male Indigo Bunting was, perhaps, the bird of the walk.The Pools, with its usual Ring-necked Duck, male. Long Meadow, where the last minute bird, was 1 male Yellow Warbler. Also reported earlier in the Park, but not seen were Summer Tanager & Hooded Warbler.
The list:
Canada Goose
Mallard
Ring-necked Duck
Double-crested Cormorant (flyover)
Red-tailed Hawk
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Monk Parakeet (1 flyover Midwood)
Chimney Swift
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher (heard only by Scott Whittle)
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (1, pools)
Barn Swallow
White-breasted Nuthatch (1, Midwood)
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Northern Parula
Yelow Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler (1, Quaker Ridge)
American Redstart
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager (1 female, Midwood)
Song Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1 female, Vale)
Indigo Bunting (2 males)
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird (1 female, pools)
Baltimore Oriole
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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Brooklyn is good birding!!!
Posted by Kingsboider at 1:32 PM
